[nycbug-talk] interesting read (old pacemaker thread)

[Isaac (.ike) Levy]

Hi All,

Ripping open a hot 8 year old thread, does anyone on list remember "the pacemaker scenario"?

On Aug 29, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Isaac Levy wrote:
On Sat, 21 May 2005 alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
>>>> Let's keep in mind that the trustworthiness of a life-critical
>>>> application has everything to do with how that program was written
> 
> http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/talk/2005-May/005497.html


I thought I'd pass along this lucid presentation I recently watched:

  "Beyond the War on General Purpose Computing: What's Inside the Box?"
  Cory Docotorow
http://defcon.org/html/links/dc-archives/dc-20-archive.html#Doctorow

  Here's a direct URL to the Video:
https://media.defcon.org/dc-20/video/DEF%20CON%2020%20Hacking%20Conference%20Presentation%20By%20Cory%20Docotorow%20-%20Beyond%20the%20War%20on%20General%20Purpose%20Computing%20Whats%20Inside%20the%20Box%20-%20Slides.m4v

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Keeping things focused on *BSD matters, I'm really curious to know what folks here think about it?

 - TPM modules
 - data ownership
  - property rights, pitted against human rights
 - contemporary redefinition of user/owner
 - repo-man scenarios for pacemakers, etc...
 - dips into some interesting "Free/Open" arguments
   (which I believe are a bit shallow, in the presentation)

Best,
.ike